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The biggest Lehigh Valley business stories of 2014 involved the region's biggest businesses.

The Morning Call reported in March that PPL Corp., one of the two Fortune 500 companies based in the Lehigh Valley, was poised to unload PPL Supply. In June, PPL confirmed that it would spin off the division, comprised mainly of power plants and an energy marketing business, to combine it with the New York-based Riverstone Holdings, creating a company called Talen Energy.

The spin-off would be good for PPL's bottom line, according to PPL CEO William Spence. He predicted the new, smaller post-spin PPL would be more efficient, resulting in annual savings of at least $75 million for the...

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The biggest Lehigh Valley business stories of 2014 involved the region's biggest businesses.
The Morning Call reported in March that PPL Corp., one of the two Fortune 500 companies based in the Lehigh Valley, was poised to unload PPL Supply. In June, PPL...

On Feb. 9, 2011, natural gas from a cracked cast-iron pipe fueled a massive explosion that lit up the sky in Allentown, killing five people and destroying eight row homes at 13th and Allen streets.
The explosion echoed another — just six months earlier...

In a key step, the developers of proposed natural gas pipeline that would carry Marcellus Shale natural gas through Northampton County to New Jersey announced Thursday that they have received reservations for nearly all its 1 billion cubic...

While Pennsylvania's northern tier has seen an influx of drilling rigs and natural gas wells, the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom has largely skirted the Lehigh Valley.Until now.PennEast Pipeline Co., a consortium that includes a UGI Corp. subsidiary,...

The Lehigh Valley's charitable impulse ran so strongly in the weeks after Allentown's deadly gas explosion, it surprised even some veterans of disaster relief.
"This particular disaster touched the community in a way I've never seen before," said...

When U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visits Allentown on Monday he will announce plans to streamline oversight of pipelines and improve communication among federal, state and local governments and private companies.
LaHood invited CEOs of...

Pennsylvania is laced with 11,000 miles of aging gas pipelines like the one implicated in the deadly Feb. 9 explosion in Allentown because legislators, regulators and gas companies haven't agreed on how to accelerate pipeline replacement -- a reform...

Pennsylvania is laced with 11,000 miles of aging gas pipelines like the one implicated in the deadly Feb. 9 explosion in Allentown because legislators, regulators and gas companies haven't agreed on how to accelerate pipeline replacement -- a reform...

Federal investigators, responding to a fatal gas explosion in Allentown, told UGI Corp. 19 years ago that the company probably would need to replace miles of corroding pipeline in the city to reduce the threat to public safety.
The conditions described...

Federal investigators, responding to a fatal gas explosion in Allentown, told UGI Corp. 19 years ago that the company probably would need to replace miles of corroding pipeline in the city to reduce the threat to public safety.
The conditions described...

Fatal gas pipeline explosions in Allentown and Philadelphia this year are casting light on whether the nation's pipeline-inspection system, funded by state and federal assessments on gas utilities, is adequate to keep the public safe.
Pipeline safety...